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Word: manhunters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adorable Liar. A delicate mechanism is the young girl of romantic hallucinations. Only a kindly sheriff and a sensitive audience can really understand. When she stirs a mob to a manhunt, excites even domestic Aunt Josephine to the point of exclaiming, "I'd rather lynch than lunch," it takes all the sensible characters in the play to straighten out the situation. Suspense attains impressive proportions as bloodhounds draw near Karrie's bedroom where a knight errant is being irreproachably entertained. Unlike most other current comedies, this one strives to root its action in human nature rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...Coast-Range Christ is of David Carrow, whose innocence knew only love for Christ. David spurned James O'Farrell's wife, fled the War draft, hid in the hills, praying. O'Farrell's wife, Iscariotwise, led a manhunt in the dark. When David took his fierce old father's bullet in the breast, a blinding apocalypse came down upon the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Headlands | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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